Ángel Salvatierra

Ángel Salvatierra Velázquez was born in El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz) in 1954. At the age of 14, he already knew he wanted to become a doctor. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Medicine by the Universidad de Cádiz, Spain in 1979, leaning towards surgery and radiology. He finished his specialty at Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid. In 1984, he started working at Reina Sofía Hospital, Córdoba, where he currently works as the Chief of Thoracic Surgery. Current member of the Andalusian Ethics and Medical Research Commission, as well as former member of the Andalusian Regional Committee for Clinical Trials. Member of Santa Cecilia Fine Arts Academy of El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz.

• Saint Louis (Missouri)
• París
• Washington

• Member of the Andalusian Ethics and Medical Research Commission.
• Chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at Reina Sofía Hospital in Córdoba, Spain.
• Chief of the Lung Transplant Unit at Reina Sofía Hospital, Córdoba.
• Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Córdoba, Subject Areas: Surgery.
• Member of the Association of Surgeons of Andalusia.
• Member of the Board of Pharmacy of Reina Sofía Hospital in Córdoba.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Association of Pulmonologists of the South of Spain (NEUMOSUR).
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Respiratory Diseases.
• Member of the Institutional Relations Committee of the Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR).
• Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Seville.
• Former member of the Regional Committee for Clinical Trials of Andalucía.

• Over 100 international and national articles in scientific publications.
• Organ Transplant Treaty (in collaboration with other authors).
• Diagnosis and Treatment of pleural hemorrhage (in collaboration with other authors).
• Diagnostic study on the solitary pulmonary nodule by discriminatory multifactorial analysis.
• Surgical techniques, approach and results.